{"id":4567,"date":"2008-02-27T13:41:05","date_gmt":"2008-02-27T12:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/internet-explorer-beta-8-soon-available\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:34:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:34:12","slug":"internet-explorer-beta-8-soon-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/internet-explorer-beta-8-soon-available\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet Explorer Beta 8 soon available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/02\/4763_ie7bellissimo.jpg\" alt=\"4763_ie7bellissimo.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/>Internet Explorer still dominates the world. Well, not as much as before, in fact much less than before. According to recent stats, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3schools.com\/browsers\/browsers_stats.asp\">54.7% of Internet users use IE<\/a>, compared to around 70% back in 2005. The real reason for this  decline, which everyone is aware of,  is the growing popularity of excellent alternatives like Firefox and Opera.<\/p>\n<p>The latest version, IE 7, was released more than a year ago, on October 18 2006, about the same time as Firefox 2.0. And while there is a lot of hype and talk of all the new features that we&#8217;ll get to see in Firefox 3.0, Microsoft is much more quiet on IE8. The only real thing we do know about the new version is that it will <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/ie\/archive\/2007\/12\/19\/internet-explorer-8-and-acid2-a-milestone.aspx\">fully pass<\/a> the Acid2 test.<\/p>\n<p>Much more about IE8 should hopefully be unveiled on March 5 at the <a href=\"http:\/\/visitmix.com\/\">MIX08<\/a> web conference in Las Vegas, where Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie, Vice President of the .NET Developer Platform Scott Guthrie and Internet Explorer General Manager Dean Hachamovitch will hold a keynote on &#8220;<span id=\"ctl00_MainPlaceHolder_EntryList_ctl09_EntryTemplate_BodyLabel\">Microsoft&#8217;s continued investment across the platform to deliver world class Web technologies and tools&#8221;. We also know that a Beta version of IE8 will be available for testing in the first half of this year, even though no precise date has yet been mentioned. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/microsoft\/?p=1214\">ZDNet<\/a> though, a private Beta is already being secretly distributed, and anybody curious enough can read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.activewin.com\/awin\/comments.asp?HeadlineIndex=42767\">email invitation<\/a> from Microsoft.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll keep you posted on any new announcements about IE8 and get hold of the Beta as soon as possible to give it a test run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internet Explorer still dominates the world. Well, not as much as before, in fact much less than before. According to recent stats, 54.7% of Internet users use IE, compared to around 70% back in 2005. The real reason for this decline, which everyone is aware of, is the growing popularity of excellent alternatives like Firefox &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/internet-explorer-beta-8-soon-available\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Internet Explorer Beta 8 soon available&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2004,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-4567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2004"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336340,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4567\/revisions\/336340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4567"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=4567"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=4567"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=4567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}